Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Lightrun raises $4M for its continuous debugging and observability platform

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Lightrun, a Tel Aviv-based startup that makes it easier for developers to debug their production code, today announced that it has raised a $4 million seed round led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from a number fo engineering executives from several Fortune 500 firms. The company, which was co-founded by Ilan Peleg (who, in […] Continue reading Lightrun raises $4M for its continuous debugging and observability platform→

Hasura launches managed cloud service for its open-source GraphQL API platform

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Hasura is an open-source engine that can connect to PostgreSQL databases and microservices across hybrid- and multi-cloud environments and then automatically build a GraphQL API backend for them, making it easier for developers to then build their own data-driven applications on top of this unified API . For a while now, the San Francisco-based startup […] Continue reading Hasura launches managed cloud service for its open-source GraphQL API platform→

Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS

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Headless CMS company Contentful today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series E funding round led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Salesforce Ventures and a number of other new and existing investors. With this, the company has now raised a total of $158.3 million and a Contentful spokesperson tells me […] Continue reading Contentful raises $80M Series E round for its headless CMS→

Google Cloud launches Filestore High Scale, a new storage tier for high-performance computing workloads

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Google Cloud today announced the launch of Filestore High Scale, a new storage option — and tier of Google’s existing Filestore service — for workloads that can benefit from access to a distributed high-performance storage option. With Filestore High Scale, which is based on technology Google acquired when it bought Elastifile in 2019, users can […] Continue reading Google Cloud launches Filestore High Scale, a new storage tier for high-performance computing workloads→

OpenStack adds the StarlinkX edge computing stack to its top-level projects

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The OpenStack Foundation today announced that StarlingX, a container-based system for running edge deployments, is now a top-level project. With this, it joins the main OpenStack private and public cloud infrastructure project, the Airship lifecycle management system, Kata Containers and the Zuul CI/CD platform. What makes StarlingX a bit different from some of these other […] Continue reading OpenStack adds the StarlinkX edge computing stack to its top-level projects→

IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage

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The IBM Cloud is currently suffering a major outage, and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme. It looks like the problems started around 2:30pm PT and spread from there. Best we can tell, this is a worldwide problem and involves a […] Continue reading IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage→

And that’s really it for Google+

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Last year, Google launched the beta of Currents, which was essentially a rebrand of Google+ for G Suite users, since Google+ for consumers went to meet its maker in April 2019. While Google+ was meant to be an all-purpose social network, the idea behind Currents is more akin to what Microsoft is doing with Yammer […] Continue reading And that’s really it for Google+→

Atlassian launches new DevOps features

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Atlassian today launched a slew of DevOps-centric updates to a variety of its services, ranging from Bitbucket Cloud and Pipelines to Jira and others. While it’s quite a grabbag of announcements, the overall idea behind them is to make it easier for teams to collaborate across functions as companies adopt DevOps as their development practice […] Continue reading Atlassian launches new DevOps features→

Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise

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In a surprise move, Mirantis acquired Docker’s Enterprise platform business at the end of last year and while Docker itself is refocusing on developers, Mirantis kept the Docker Enterprise name and product. Today, Mirantis is rolling out its first major update to Docker Enterprise with the release of version 3.1. For the most part, these […] Continue reading Mirantis releases its first major update to Docker Enterprise→

RudderStack raises $5M seed round for its open-source Segment competitor

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RudderStack, a startup that offers an open-source alternative to customer data management platforms like Segment, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed round led by S28 Captial. Salil Deshpande of Uncorrelated Ventures and Mesosphere/D2iQ co-founder Florian Leibert (through 468 Capital) also participated in this round. In addition, the company also today announced […] Continue reading RudderStack raises $5M seed round for its open-source Segment competitor→